Saturday, October 12, 2013

Halloween (2007)

With 2013 being the 35th anniversary of my all time favorite, Halloween, I wanted to update my filming locations for the series, which have been scattered throughout my blog. I will update these pages as I add new locations and cast or crew.

With a sense of anticipation and dread, it was inevitable that Halloween would be remade. The end result was a pretty mixed bag. Some things Rob Zombie got right, other things were so completely wrong it was unforgivable. I actually tracked down and visited the locations a few months before the film was released, but have revisited some of them years later. So the pictures below are a mix of various trips. Screenshots are taken from the workprint of the film.

First up is the latest incarnation of the Myer's house. Just a couple blocks from the original 1978 Myers' house in South Pasadena, this location is used many times, most notably as Angela Chase's house in My So Called Life...

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The pool in the backyard mostly looks the same as the one in the movie, but a bit smaller, there are some shots they obviously used there...

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The elementary school exterior is also in South Pasadena, right across the street from the 1978 Laurie Strode house...

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The high school is actually on the opposite side of the elementary school on the same block....

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As most fans know, when Laurie Strode looks out the window of the high school, she sees Michael standing in front of the Laurie Strode 1978 house.....

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Smiths Grove is actually shot on the same Veterans Hospital campus as Haddonfield Memorial Hospital from Halloween II (1981)...

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The college where Dr. Loomis is speaking...

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The girls walk home from school is on the same corner as the original....

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And the new Strode house is at the end of the "speed kills" street from the original film...

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The adoption record office...

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The babysitting houses! First up is the Wallace house. I at least liked that Zombie had worked to keep the same look and feel as the original series by keeping it in the same area....

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And across and up the street is the Doyle house....

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UPDATE June 2014: Finally got around to visiting "Haddonfield Burger"...

I met some of the cast shortly before the film's release in 2007....

Actor Daeg Faerch....

Tyler Mane...

Actress Hanna Hall...

Actress Danielle Harris returns to the series....

The great Danny Trejo....

Actor Lew Temple....

Actress Dee Wallace...

Producer Malek Akkad....

Here are some props from the film on display at the Halloween convention in 2008....